A Broken Frame was released that September
and peaked at No. 14 in Australia on 23 August 1982.
After remaining with the band for several rehearsals, Pomfret departed acrimoniously. He was replaced by the bass player Dale Hibbert, who worked at Manchester’s Decibel Studios, where Marr had met him while recording Freak Party ‘s demo. Through Hibbert, the Smiths recorded their first demo at Decibel one night in…
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After the October Tour, U2 decamped to a rented cottage in Howth, where they lived, wrote new songs, and rehearsed for their third album, War . Significant musical breakthroughs were achieved by the Edge in August 1982 during a two-week period of independent songwriting, while the other band members holidayed…
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and was replaced by Phil Collen of Girl the next day.
On 11 July 1982, Pete Willis was fired due to excessive alcohol consumption on the job
Deluxe had been unable to attract international interest so the band decided to record a new song, ” The One Thing ” at their own expense with Mark Opitz at Paradise Studios. The song turned out so well that Murphy hired Opitz to produce three more songs. Murphy approached WEA…
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Neil Osborne and Brad Merritt met in 1978 at South Delta High School in Tsawwassen , British Columbia . After studying at the Berklee College of Music in Boston , Osborne returned home and formed the band 54-40 with Merritt and drummer Ian Franey. The band played their first gig…
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At first, the Rio album did not do well in the United States. EMI in the UK had promoted Duran Duran as a New Romantic band, but the New Romantic movement was barely known in the US, and EMI’s American subsidiary Capitol Records was at a loss about how to…
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In May 1982, Duran Duran released their second album, Rio , which entered the UK Albums Chart at number four and peaked at number two the following week. The band scored three UK top 10 hits on the singles chart from the album with ” Hungry Like the Wolf ”…
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